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Analysis Of Hunger Of Memory By Richard Rodriguez

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Richard Rodriguez’s memoir Hunger of Memory’s illustrates the identity dilemma that many minorities have to endure when they come to the United States of America and how them being a minority affects their chances of success. There are numerous ways that people for a person to lose his or her identity; the main one is when they immigrate to a new nation. Most immigrants suffer from personal disorientation which is common when one is unfamiliar with the environment that surrounds them and how to adapt to this new social atmosphere. Many minorities feel discriminated towards because they are being labeled their race, gender, cultural background, and religion. Most people when they view these traditions that the minorities practice comes to them …show more content…

His ideology is that just because we come from a different cultural background doesn’t mean that we are should look down on someone or belittle them. This a great and abundant country and there is no reason that we should discriminate towards anyone because of their physical, social, financial, cultural background or religion. Throughout history we can see the impact that an minority group has when they come to a new country and the obstacles that they have to overcome. In my own life when I came to America in elementary I couldn’t speak English and I was bullied by my other peers that attended the same school because of me being a minority. So these were the struggles that I had to overcome personally and help me relate to what Richard Rodriguez is talking about in his book. Richard Rodriguez was a smart man but that’s not why he was successful he was successful because he was educated. Education had a great him pact on him because it was able to take him far. He doesn’t support bilingual education for minorities. He says that they should take the affirmative action law out because the right type of education can take discrimination out. He thinks that these type of teaching is what is misleading the way people look at minorities and treat them in the education aspects. He feels that because he learned a new language he has lost his identity. Thus, raises his voice on how real the indentity

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